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FedRAMP: Adapting to a Dynamic Landscape While Balancing Security with Efficiency

| | Blog, FedRAMP
The FedRAMP program has successfully enabled commercial cloud computing adoption by Federal and DOD agencies for over 14 years, establishing itself as a cornerstone of secure cloud adoption within the government. Despite ...

Making FedRAMP ATOs Great with OSCAL and Components

| | Blog, FedRAMP, OMB, OSCAL
OMB Memo M-24-15 published on July 24, 2024 directed GSA and the FedRAMP PMO to streamline the FedRAMP ATO process using NIST OSCAL. By late 2025 or early 2026 (18 months after ...
A New Way to SSP: The Component Definition Approach to Defining Controls

A New Way to SSP: The Component Definition Approach to Defining Controls

| | ATO, Blog, FedRAMP, OSCAL, rmf, SSP
A New Way to SSP: The Component Definition Approach to Defining Controls Guest Post by Johann Dettweiler, CISO, stackArmor Imagine a world where the “say nothing” narrative implementation statements, rampant across the ...
California’s AI RAMP or FedRAMP for AI?

California’s AI RAMP or FedRAMP for AI?

| | ATO, ATO for AI, Blog, FedRAMP, SB 1047
California’s AI RAMP or FedRAMP for AI?: Urgent need for an actionable and enforceable US safety and security framework for AI California State Bill 1047 was passed today by the Assembly where ...
Embracing MLSecOps for Secure and Safe AI Systems

Embracing MLSecOps for Secure and Safe AI Systems

| | AI, Blog, LLM, MLSecOPS
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming practically every corner of our world. Concurrently, the need for MLSecOps platforms has become fundamental in ensuring the security of AI systems.  Traditional security ...
Conducting a CMMC 2.0 Readiness Assessment

Conducting a CMMC 2.0 Readiness Assessment

| | Blog, CMMC, CMMC 2.0, DoD, NIST
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program gives the Defense Department a mechanism to verify the readiness of defense contractors both large and small to handle controlled unclassified information and federal contract information ...
Accelerating CMMC 2.0 Compliance for Defense Contractors with Microsoft Azure

Accelerating CMMC 2.0 Compliance for Defense Contractors with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure provides a suite of highly integrated security services that provide a cost-effective solution for Defense contractors looking to meet the CMMC 2.0 requirements. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is ...
ThreatAlert® on Google Cloud Platform: A Proven Solution for Comprehensive Security

ThreatAlert® on Google Cloud Platform: A Proven Solution for Comprehensive Security

Alec Meyer, Sr. Cloud Solutions Specialist As cloud adoption continues its meteoric rise, so too does the complexity of securing diverse environments. At stackArmor, our ThreatAlert® Security Platform has been a cornerstone ...
Adding GenAI to a FedRAMP Authorized Boundary

Adding GenAI to a FedRAMP Authorized Boundary

| | ATO, Azure OpenAI, Blog, FedRAMP
The FedRAMP PMO announced the Emerging Technology Prioritization Framework (ETPF) to fast-track AI solutions in code generation, image generation, and chatbots. Cloud service providers (CSP) with existing FedRAMP authorizations can now add ...
How Much Does FedRAMP Compliance Cost?

How Much Does FedRAMP Compliance Cost?

| | Blog
FedRAMP compliance costs can be broken up into two parts: 1) initial ATO costs and 2) ongoing authorization or continuous monitoring costs. The initial FedRAMP compliance professional services costs for the most ...